Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Pleocyemata > Infraorder Brachyura > Section Eubrachyura > Subsection Heterotremata > Superfamily Dorippoidea > Family Ethusidae > Genus Ethusa

Ethusa microphthalma Smith, 1881

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ethusa*	Roux, 1830	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: broadback sumo crab

Literature

original description	Smith, S.I. (1881). Preliminary notice on the Crustacea dredged in 64 to 325 fathoms, off the South Coast of New England, by the United States Fish Commission in 1880. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 3: 413-452.
basis of record	Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 284-292
additional source	Williams, A. B. (1984). Shrimps, Lobsters, and Crabs of the Atlantic Coast of the Eastern United States, Maine to Florida. Smithsonian Institution Press.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Felder, D. L., Álvarez. F.,Goy, J.W. & Lemaitre, R. (2009). Decapoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, with comments on the Amphionidacea,. Felder, D.L., and Camp, D.K. (eds), Gulf of Mexico - Origins, Waters, and Biota. Vol. 1. Biodiversity. Pp. 1019–1104 (Texas A&M University Press: College Station, Texas).

Genbank

Citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Ethusa microphthalma Smith, 1881. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:107284